What is OOBE or Out-Of-Box Experience in Windows 10?

When you install Windows 10, you follow a configuration process. It is only when you have completed all the steps that you use Windows 10. Microsoft calls them OOBE or Out of Box experience in Windows. This is the first boot experience affected by image customizations and software add-ons applied to the Windows business image. In this post, I will share more information about OOBE.

OOBE or out-of-box experience in Windows 10

OOBE is nothing but a set of scripts that must be completed. It performs the initial hardware and software configuration on the computer. The setup process also requires multiple user choices, including privacy, messaging, user creation, wireless networking, and more.

The OOBE experience can change with each version of the Windows 10 feature update, but it remains largely the same. For example, you can use Cortana to configure Windows 10. This feature was introduced later in one of its updates.

Here is a list of choices you will need to make via the original OOBE configuration when configuring Windows 10.

1. Accept the license agreement.
2. Make choices for country layout, language and keyboard.
3. Sign in with a Microsoft account or you can choose to create a local administrator account.
4. Choose privacy settings for Windows features, including location, voice recognition, diagnostics, and other settings. Most of them are enabled by default, but you can disable them.
5. Setting up the activity history
6. Voice recognition online
7. Allow location access to Microsoft applications
8. Send diagnostic data to the Microsoft screen
9. Configure the ink and screen typing experience
10. Get custom experiences with a custom data screen
11. Let applications use the advertising identification screen
12. Configuring the connection with Windows Hello
13. Link your phone and your PC
14. Office 365 integration
15. Find my device.

The last part of the installation of Windows 10 takes a few minutes. When finished, you will see a screen that says – It will not take long, Setting up your device for work.

Wait until the end, and you should be at the login screen.

Use the same password you used to create the account, and this will allow you to enter your computer.

That's it!